Below also see: Frederick Chilton Moorehouse, 1925,
Frederick Chilton Moorehouse and Edward Cyril Homer, 1933
Frederick Chilton Moorehouse, 1936

 

The Sydney Morning Herald, Mon 23 Oct 1922 ¹

LAW REPORT.
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QUARTER SESSIONS.
(Before Acting-Judge Edwards.)

    Mr TS Crawford, Crown Prosecutor.

CRIMINAL ASSAULT.

    John Frederick Robert Stone, aged 22, was charged with having committed a serious offence at Marrickville on January 1, 1922. Mr JW Abigail appeared for the accused. The jury, after being locked up for the night, on Saturday morning returned a verdict of guilty, with a recommendation to mercy. Pending inquiries by the police into the character of the girl concerned in the case, his Honor remanded accused for sentence until tis morning.
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QUARTER SESSIONS.

    No. 1 Court.—Henry Walter Burrell, breaking, entering, and stealing; Frederick Chilton Moorehouse, indecent assault.

    No. 2 Court.—Horace George Bradley, larceny; Charles James Knight, inciting to commit crime.

    No. 3 Court.—Alfred Sydney Sloane Joseph Jones, breaking, entering, and stealing; Leslie Joseph Robinson, Joseph Patrick Smith, and William Patrick Moran, larceny; Reuben Cornelius Dew, assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

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The Daily Telegraph, Mon 13 Nov 1922 ²

LAW NOTICES
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Monday, November 13.

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QUARTER SESSIONS.

    No. 1 Court: Joseph Gilbert Rowley and John Lewis Blinkhorn, larceny and receiving; Frederick Chilton Moorehouse, indecent assault; Clement Douglas Mossop, receiving stolen property.

    No. 2 Court: Robert Watson, breaking, entering, and stealing; Henry Stedman Carr, larceny; Henry Ridley, Ernest Law, and Francis Connelly, robbery.

    The following appeals against magistrates’ convictions and orders will be heard in No. 1 Industrial Court, Queen’s Square:—Doris Miller, stealing; Florence Davis, sending offensive letter through post; Rupert James Clenso Howes, Motor Traffic Act; Alfred Lucas, assault police; William Frank Gorman, maintenance; Linnet Stuart, maintenance.

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The Sydney Morning Herald, Mon 13 Nov 1922 ³

LAW NOTICES.
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Monday, November 13.

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QUARTER SESSIONS.

    No. 1 Court.—Joseph Gilbert Rowley and John Lewis Blinkhorn, larceny and receiving; Frederick Chilton Moorehouse, indecent assault; Clement Douglas Mossop, receiving stolen property.

    No. 2 Court.—Robert Watson, breaking, entering, and stealing; Henry Stedman Carr, larceny; Henry Ridley, Ernest Law, and Francis Connelly, robbery.
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TRIBUTE TO THE POLICE.
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    A fine tribute is paid to the police by Mr F[rederick] G[regory] Adrian in the course of a letter to the Under-Secretary of Justice, conveying his resignation of his position as chief stipendiary magistrate, to take over the chairmanship of the Licenses Reduction Board. “In terminating my official connection with the police courts after many years’ experience,” Mr Adrian wrote, “I should like as a matter of duty to convey through the department to the Inspector-General of Police, my appreciation of the members of the police force generally in respect to their conduct as custodians of the public peace. Allowing for a few exceptional cases, which are naturally to be found among the large body of men, the police in New South Wales, as far as my long experience enables me to form an opinion, are intelligent, truthful, and honest, and very jealous of their reputation in all these respects.”

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The Sydney Morning Herald, Tue 14 Nov 1922 ⁴

QUARTER SESSIONS.
(Before Judge Cohen.)

    Mr LJ McKean, Crown Prosecutor.

ACQUITTED.

    Frederick Chilton Moorehouse pleaded not guilty to a serious offence, [of indecent assaulting Donald McIntyre aged 10]. The Crown case was not completed when his Honor directed the jury to return a verdict of not guilty. Mr Walker appeared for the accused, who was acquitted and discharged.

 

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Frederick Chilton Moorehouse, 1925

The Sydney Morning Herald, Fri 24 Apr 1925 ⁵

GIRL’S SUICIDE.
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    Evidence given before the City Coroner (Mr Jamieson) yesterday, at the inquest concerning the death of Olive Isabella Jamieson, aged 15 years 11 months, suggested that the girl committed suicide because she had been thwarted in love.

    Frederick Chilton Moorehouse, a shop assistant, of 6 Ross-street, North Sydney, gave evidence that he had been keeping company with the deceased for about two years before her death. On Good Friday she went to the Show with his brother, aged 12, and arrived home at about 2.35 pm. She later went home and returned at about 7 pm. At about 10 pm she prepared to leave for her home, and asked him for a drink of water. He gave her a glass, and she drank some of it. Four or five minutes later she said: “I have taken strychnine,” and began to scream and shout. He rang for two doctors, but they told him to ring other medical men. Soon afterwards deceased was hurried to the hospital, but she died before arrival at the institution.

    He stated that about one month before the tragedy he had a quarrel with the deceased over another girl, but that was over in a day. They were on good terms on April 10.

    Phyllis Olive Bond said that she worked with the deceased before her death, and on April 7, during the lunch hour, deceased said to her: “Fred has been out with other girls, and he will be sorry for it.”

    The coroner recorded a finding of suicide.

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Truth, Sun 26 Apr 1925 ⁶

“MY BLOOD WILL BE
ON YOUR DEAR HANDS”
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MYSTERIOUS LETTER PROMPTS
Girl to Commit Suicide
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OLIVE JAMIESON TAKES POISON AFTER HER
MIND HAD BEEN POISONED BY
MAUDLIN LIVE LETTER.

    “Love such as mine—blinding, ravishing love—breeds jealousy …” These lines were not penned by a woman who had lived, loved passionately and lost.

    They are an extract from a printed letter found in the handbag of Olive Isabella Jamieson, a girl 16 years of age, who having known only the immature love of tender youth poisoned herself cause [sic] the green-eyed god of jealousy had whispered that Frederick Chilton Moorehouse was trifling with her.

    Mystery surrounds the origin of the letter, which is singularly appropriate to the tragic end of this young girl. It was simply signed with the printed initial “B.”

    Was the stupid, bizarre document—not written or typed—found in a box of sweets or acquired from a penny-in-the-slot machine, responsible for a morbid reaction in the mind of Olive Isabella Jamieson?

    Olive lived with her step-father and mother at Ross-street, Bay-road, North Sydney. Young Fred Moorehouse, her sweetheart of some 18 months or two years’ standing, lived a few doors away.

    Olive, who was only 15 years and 11 months of age, worked as a chemist’s assistant at Washington H Soul’s in Pitt-street. Fred was employed as a shop assistant at the Direct Furnishing Co.

    The course of true love seems to have run smoothly until this month.

OTHER GIRLS

    The first rift in the lute was a quarrel. Olive accused her sweetheart of taking out other girls. This “tiff,” however, was to all intents and purposes patched up. But Olive’s mother noticed that the pair were not on the same terms of affection.

    In Olive’s opinion, apparently, the matter was far from settled. She brooded over it, and listened to the little Green God taunting her as he magnified the supposed faithfulness [sic–faithlessness] of her sweetheart.

    Perhaps it was then that the mysterious printed letter, with its extravagantly-worded protestations of passionate and undying love came into her possession. It reads:—

    “My Darling Love,—How I have lived the few long hours since we parted I do not know. Sweetheart, I must have been to blame.

    “The glow of the lovelight which radiates from those lustrous eyes in the picture of you which I have before me as I write tells me you are true.

    “I was mad with jealousy. Love such as mine—blinding, ravishing love—breeds jealousy. What a sweet yet bitter thing is love!

    “Oh, darling, forgive me. Let me come to you and kiss away the tears I have caused you. You will kill me if you refuse—my blood will be on your dear hands—I will died broken-hearted.

    “Have pity on yours forever.—B.”

    To the impressionable mind of a young girl with a highly-sensitive nature a first love is a serious matter. The letter, to her mind, nursing a wrong, represented something intensely beautiful, and was so applicable to her own case.

    Soon the canker of self-pity took root, and the lines of the letter were branded in searing characters upon her brain.

    It was not long before those suggestive phrases prompted her to action.

    Going to a chemist at the place where she worked, Olive asked him for some strychnine, saying that she wanted to kill a cat which was annoying her at night.

ON GOOD FRIDAY

    The chemist refused to give her any poison, but agreed to put some in a piece of meat if she cared to bring it along. Next day, April 7, Olive brought the meat, and Charles Peter Thomson, the chemist, placed three or four grains of strychnine in it.

    Olive confided to her girl chum, Phyllis Olive Bone, 14 years of age, of “Kingweston,” Palmer-street, Belmore, that “Fred has been out with other girls, and he will be sorry for it.”

    Olive asked Phyllis to take a letter to Fred, where he worked. Phyllis told her that she had not the time. And so the letter which might have made all the difference to Olive was not delivered.

    On Good Friday, accompanied by Fred’s younger brother, aged 12, Olive went to the Show. Among the thousands of pleasure-seekers the two moved, one enjoying to the full the novelties and sights, the other thinking of a phrase in a letter that had become to her a rosary—“My blood will be on your dear hands.”

    That night Olive visited Fred at his home at Ross-street. For a time they listened to some phonograph records the girl had brought with her, then, left alone by the other members of the family, they read together for a while.

    She seemed to be quite happy then, Fred said after the tragedy.

    At 10 o’clock Olive put on her hat to go home, and asked Fred for a drink of water. He got it for her, and she drank it. A few minutes later Olive told him simply that she had taken strychnine. She was very quiet then.

    Horrified, Fred called to his mother, who rushed upstairs to find the girl screaming. The ambulance and Dr Horsfall, of Wollstonecraft, arrived together. Olive died on the way to the Royal North Shore Hospital.

    There the mysterious letter was found in the girl’s handbag.

    At the inquest this week a verdict of suicide was entered.

 

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Frederick Chilton Moorehouse and Edward Cyril Homer, 1933

 

The Sydney Morning Herald, Wed 5 Apr 1933 ⁷

LAW NOTICES.
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Wednesday April 5.
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QUARTER SESSIONS.

    No. 1 Court.—
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    Frederick Chilton Moorehouse, break, enter, and steal (for plea only).

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The Sydney Morning Herald, Thu 6 Apr 1933 ⁸

QUARTER SESSIONS.
(Before Judge Clancy.)

    Senior Crown Prosecutor, Mr McKean, KC (instructed by Mr GCB Champion, Deputy Clerk of the Peace).
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PLEADED GUILTY.

    Frederick Chilton Moorehouse, 26, labourer, and Edward Cyril Homer, 25, gardener, pleaded guilty to two charges of breaking and entering. They were each sentenced to six months’ imprisonment on each charge, concurrent.

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Frederick Chilton Moorehouse, Gaol photo sheet ⁹

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Gaol Photo Sheet - Transcribed Details 

Name Frederick Chilton Moorehouse No. 27383 Date when Portrait was taken: 6-4-1933								Finger Print Classification
Native Place Queensland Year of Birth 6-8-1906 Arrived in State   Ship                        }     Year Trade or occupation previous to conviction  } Stockman Religion C of E Education, degree of R & W Height, without shoes 5' 10¼" Weight in lbs.     On committal 165                      }     On discharge Colour of hair Brown Colour of eyes Blue Marks or special features Nil					(Nos. of previous Portrait ... )
CONVICTIONS Convicted with Edward Cyril Homer St 7574 97939
Court.	Date			Offence.		Sentence	Name.		Gaol No.
North Sydney PC ditto Sydney Q.S	8 31 5	12 3 4	1930 1933 1933	Riotous behaviour False pretences Break & enter a dwelling & steal (2 charges)		£2 or 8 days HL  2 months HL & Compensation £12-6-0 or 25 days HL acc. 6 months HL on each charge con to date from 16-3-1933	Fine paid R Howard or Frederick Chilton Moorehouse Frederick Chilton Moorehouse		2573

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Edward Cyril Homer, Gaol photo sheet ¹⁰

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Gaol Photo Sheet - Transcribed Details 

Name Edward Cyril Homer No. 27385 Date when Portrait was taken: -4-1933								Finger Print Classification
Native Place Arncliffe Year of Birth 7-3-1908 Arrived in State   Ship                        }     Year Trade or occupation previous to conviction  } Baker Religion C of E Education, degree of R & W Height, without shoes 5' 4¾" Weight in lbs.     On committal 139                      }     On discharge Colour of hair Brown Colour of eyes Blue Marks or special features Rising sun, outline of map of Australia, two flags, anchor & “A.U.S.” above leaves above dial of compass outside left forearm. Horseshoe back left hand. Bird above “MOTHER” above heart outside right forearm					(Nos. of previous Portrait ... )
CONVICTIONS Convicted with Frederick Chilton Moorehouse St 7574 97939
Court.	Date			Offence.		Sentence	Name.		Gaol No.
Sydney Q.S	5	4	1933	Break & enter a dwelling & steal (2 charges)		6 months HL on each charge con to date from 16-3-1933	Edward Cyril Homer		2571

 

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Frederick Chilton Moorehouse, 1936

The Sydney Morning Herald, Tue 12 May 1936 ¹¹

POLICE COURTS.
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THEFTS OF FURNITURE.

    At the North Sydney Police Court, Frederick Chilton Moorehouse, 29, labourer, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment on five charges of stealing seagrass furniture and other articles, at Mosman, on March 28.

    Constable Crowley stated that the residents of Mosman mentioned in the charges, reported to the police that the articles were taken from their premises on the previous night. All the property was found in defendant’s home.

    On two other charges of breaking and entering and stealing, at Mosman, Moorehouse was committed for trial.

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The Sydney Morning Herald, Tue 19 May 1936 ¹²

LAW NOTICE.
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Tuesday, May 19.
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QUARTER SESSIONS.

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    No. 2 Court: Frederick Chilton Moorehouse, break, enter, and steal (for plea only);

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The Sydney Morning Herald, Sat 23 May 1936 ¹³

QUARTER SESSIONS.
(Before Acting Judge Pilcher.)

    Crown Prosecutor, Mr LJ McKean, KC (instructed by the Clerk of the Peace).

FURNITURE FOR THE HOME.

    Frederick Chilton Moorehouse, 29, relief worker, who pleaded guilty to two charges of housebreaking at Mosman, was brought up for sentence.

    Mr Spain, pleading for leniency, said the accused, stole the furniture to make his sparsely furnished home more agreeable for his wife and two children, who had been ill.

    His Honor passed a sentence of 12 months’ hard labour, making it concurrent with one of 6 months Moorehouse is now serving on another charge, and giving him leave to petition for release on the completion of that sentence.

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Frederick Chilton Moorehouse, Gaol photo sheet ¹⁴

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Gaol Photo Sheet - Transcribed Details

No. 29687

No. 146/61

Date when Portrait was taken: 12-5-1936

Name: Frederick Chilton Moorehouse

Native place: Queensland Year of birth: 6-8-1906 Arrived       Ship: in Colony }   Year: Trade or occupation previous to conviction  } Stockman Religion: C of E Education, degree of: R & W Height: 5' 10½" Weight     On committal: 156 in lbs     } On discharge: Colour of hair: Brown Colour of eyes: Blue

Marks or special features: Nil.

(No. of previous Portrait .. 27383) Criminal Register 105/34; NSW 135/191. CONVICTIONS
Where and When				Offence.	Sentence
North Sydney PC Sydney Q.S	11 19	5 5	1936 1936	Stealing (5 charges) Break & enter a dwelling & steal (2 charges)	6 months on each charge concurrent 12 months H.L. on each charge concurrent
His Honor said:–You may petition for your release at the expiration of the 6 months sentence now serving, for a remission of the balance of this sentence.
4 previous convictions.

 

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¹     The Sydney Morning Herald, Mon 23 Oct 1922, p. 5. Emphasis added.

²     The Daily Telegraph, Mon 13 Nov 1922, p. 6. Emphasis added.

³     The Sydney Morning Herald, Mon 13 Nov 1922, p. 11. Emphasis added.

⁴     The Sydney Morning Herald, Tue 14 Nov 1922, p. 6. Emphasis added.

⁵     The Sydney Morning Herald, Fri 24 Apr 1925, p. 6. Emphasis added.

⁶     Truth, (Syd, NSW), Sun 26 Apr 1925, p. 9. Emphasis in original and added.

⁷     The Sydney Morning Herald, Wed 5 Apr 1933, p. 10.

⁸     The Sydney Morning Herald, Thu 6 Apr 1933, p. 6.

⁹     SRNSW: NRS– [17/1507], State Penitentiary photographic description book, 28 Mar 1933-15 Jul 1933, No. 27383, p. –.

¹⁰   SRNSW: NRS– [17/1507], State Penitentiary photographic description book, 28 Mar 1933-15 Jul 1933, No. 27385, p. –.

¹¹   The Sydney Morning Herald, Tue 12 May 1936, p. 5.

¹²   The Sydney Morning Herald, Tue 19 May 1936, p. 8.

¹³   The Sydney Morning Herald, Sat 23 May 1936, p. 10.

¹⁴   SRNSW: NRS– [17/1517], State Penitentiary photographic description book, 11 Mar 1936-13 Jun 1936, No. 29687, p. –.

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